Sam Angus is the author of Soldier Dog which has been longlisted for the Carnegie Prize and the Redbridge Award amongst many others. What comes first – the narrative or the factual content? The narrative always comes first for me, I often go through a book after the first draft, adding in any contextual detail…
Tom Avery is a writer of fiction for children and a primary school teacher. His manuscript for Too Much Trouble won the 2010 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award and was published on June 2nd 2011 by Frances Lincoln. How do you fit writing around full time teaching? Unfortunately, I have to be super organised. This is unfortunate…
Explore our interviews with authors of books for children, ranging from early years to young adult. The interviews were all carried out by members of the Children’s Literature Special Interest Group from 2012 to 2017.
In a series of articles for English 4-11 Rob Sanderson examines high quality picture books and suggests how they may be used in the primary classroom. The Chicken Thief The Black Book of Colours The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit The Mysteries of Harris Burdick It’s a Book In the Forest Iggy Peck…
A special offer for subscribers to English 4-11 Teaching Dickens in the Primary School, edited by Eve Bearne This volume contains material created for the first Dickens Fellowship and English Association More Dickens Competition in 2012. Teachers from the three prize-winning schools describe the richness of their work and one member of the judging panel…
John Paine, founding editorial board member and former editor of English 4-11, looks back on 20 years of the journal A cause for celebration. Twenty years ago the first edition of Primary English (later to become English 4-11) carried the editorial headline ‘Teaching by Numbers?’ Then, in 1992 there was, as now, continuing discussion about…